Career

To become a chef you must have a professional culinary training. To start your career as a chef you must complete your class X to join the Diploma Course in Food Craft. In order to opt for a degree course in Culinary Arts one must complete 10+2 in any stream.
- Some of the institutes offering training are :
*Indian Institute of Hotel Management and Culinary Arts
*International Institute of Hotel Management
*IHM Meerut
*Christ University
*Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration
For more, you may refer to the below link :
https://hospitality.shiksha.com/bachelor-in-hotel-management-in-india-categorypage-6-84-264-0-0-1-1-2-0-none-1-0
- As a chef, you have wide range of career prospects.
You can be appointed in varied places like hotels, restaurants, air catering, railway catering etc.
You can be a food writer.
You can start up a business of your own.
You also have a chance to go abroad and get job opportunities in hotels as the Indian recipes are the most demanded ones now a days.
- As a chef you can get attractive salary and other benefits. The salary range differs in consideration to your experience and place where you work.

Hotels are amongst the most visible and important aspects of a country's infrastructure. Hotel industry is a closely linked one to the tourism industry. A number of factors like promotion of tourism and rapid industrial progress have given a boost to hoteliering. The recent liberalisation of trade and opening up of economy will further lead to revolutionary growth in this sector. With increasing globalisation, career opportunities in this field are not only limited within the country but there are chains of hotels which operate internationally providing scope of a career abroad. It is a glamorous profession which has a bright future. With the growth of hotel industry propelled by foreign and domestic tourism and business travel, the demand for well-trained quality personnel too has grown impressively. The diversity of experience in hotel management is greater than in any other profession. Hotel industry involves combination of various skills like management, food and beverage service, housekeeping, front office operation, sales and marketing, accounting. Today, the rise in corporate activity (leading to greater number of business trips) as well as the wish to travel on holiday has made the hotel industry a very competitive one.